After over a year of watching the televised ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people, I cannot get behind MLK’s message of peaceful protest and loving someone out of their disdain and hatred for you. If these things were possible, the women who are murdered by their significant others would still be alive and the people forced into concentration camps never would’ve been there.

"The law cannot make a man love me— religion and education must do that... but it can keep him from lynching me." The law cannot keep someone from being lynched. It can only punish the lynching after the fact and only if the ones who enforce the law deem the perpetrator to be lowly enough to receive punishment. This is delusional thinking and MLK’s sermons are rife with it.

Just from an editing and content standpoint, this needed work. There were some sermons that were already long and the author felt the need to include the announcements and bulletin readouts. Those added nothing to the overall message and this became abundantly clear when other entries were very brief sections of sermons preceded by paragraphs of context. There needed to be a middle ground between the unnecessary fat and tiny paragraphs edited down to nothing. It was almost as if the author searched every MLK sermon for the word love and included them all regardless of the content or meaning of the sermon. There were also a lot of sermons that MLK clearly recycled so we didn’t need that redundancy in this text.

I just could not in good conscience take all of what MLK said as fact after seeing the plight of the Palestinian people and I hope that we can all look at our heroes critically and hold them to account when they are wrong or delusional.